Postgame multimedia
Fordham: Dereck Whittenburg, Bryant Dunston and Marcus Stout
St. Joseph's: Phil Martelli, Pat Calathes and Tasheed Carr
Video highlights of Martelli and Carr
ATLANTIC CITY -- To shoot 56.9 percent from the field in a game is impressive enough. To do it in a conference tournament game, even against the 12-seed, at least strikes me as being a pretty big deal.
Not having a bye, this is exactly what St. Joe's needed in the first round: an 80-62 blowout of Fordham in which no one played more than 30 minutes. And although the afternoon attendance was announced as 3,342, the Hawks didn't seen fazed at all by playing in front of a diminished atmosphere for the first time in a while.
Fordham shot 23-for-56 from the field (41.1%), including 6-for-23 from three-point range (26.1%) and 17-for-33 from two-point range (51.5%), and 10-for-18 from the free throw line (55.6%). Fourteen offensive rebounds, 18 defensive rebounds, 12 assists, 13 turnovers, four blocks, six steals and 20 fouls committed.
That adds up to 63 possessions and 0.985 points per possession.
In his final college game, Bryant Dunston led the Rams with 17 points on 6-for-11 shooting; he was 5-for-7 from the free throw line. Dunston also recorded five rebounds (two on offense), three blocks, one steal and one assist,
St. Joe's shot 29-for-51 from the field (56.9%), including 7-for-15 from three-point range (46.7%) and 22-for-36 from two-point range (61.1%), and a mildly concerning 15-for-25 from the free throw line (60.0%). Nine offensive rebounds, 23 defensive rebounds, 17 assists, 11 turnovers, four blocks, nine steals and 18 fouls committed.
That adds up to 64 possessions and a nice, round 1.25 points per possession.
Pat Calathes led all scorers with 23 points on 9-for-12 shooting, including 2-for-4 from three-point range, but line of the game goes to Tasheed Carr:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T. Carr |
30 |
7-7 |
0-0 |
2-2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
23 |
16 |
Of note, Martelli went on a bit of a riff in his remarks about why players don't care about winning anymore because they think there will always be another game.
There's also postgame audio from Saint Louis-Dayton, which I got mainly to listen to Rick Majerus. Here's Dayton, and here's Majerus and a few of his players. You guess which one lasts 20 minutes.
